Ethics category: 8196 books
Ethics and Animals
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides...
Economy, Difference, Empire
Social Ethics for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian social ethics-social gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism, and liberation theology-Gary Dorrien argues for the social-ethical necessity of social justice politics. In carefully reasoned essays, he focuses on three subjects: the ethics and politics...
Journalism Ethics
A Casebook of Professional Conduct for News Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics-the news industry's widely accepted "gold standard" of journalism principles-this updated edition uses real-life case studies to demonstrate how journalism students and professionals can identify and reason...
An Ethics of Improvisation
Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a politically just society. The investigation of what politics can learn from the people who perform and listen to musical improvisation begins with an examination of current...
by Dee Danchev, Alistair Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Research Ethics for Counsellors, Nurses & Social Workers is designed to help you make the best start in your research career. With ethical implications and considerations arising at each stage of the research process, engaging with the wide range of issues and ideas can often prove a challenge....
Against War
Views from the Underside of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities"...
Ethics and Experience
Moral Theory from Just War to Abortion
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Ethics and Experience introduces students to the key topics in moral theory through provocative moral issues—just war, abortion, physician assisted suicide, the death penalty and more. Steffen helps students bridge the gap between ethical theory and experience through developing a “common agreement”...
Ethics
A Liberative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This survey text for religious ethics and theological ethics courses explores how ethical concepts defined as liberationist, which initially was a Latin American Catholic phenomenon, is presently manifest around the globe and within the United States across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups....
An Introduction to Biblical Ethics
Walking in the Way of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
ethical alternatives such as relativism, social contract, utilitarianism and evolutionary ethics
the seven deadly sins as well as the cardinal virtues vs. theological virtues
end-of-life ethics, stem-cell research, animal rights, sexuality, genetics and technology, and other bioethical issues such as...
Ethics and Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Can someone be a good person yet act in a professional role that may involve deception, procedural trickery, withholding information, and working on behalf of terrible people and institutions? This question is at the heart of legal ethics. Using cases from around the common-law world, W. Bradley Wendel...
by Isabel Gois, Christopher Woodard
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book is an introduction and guide to some of the pressing contemporary problems in applied ethics. Beginning with an introduction which charts the distinctive contribution philosophy can make practical issues, it addresses six problems: What are the moral restrictions (if any) on the human consumption...
Ethics and the Beast
A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and moral status. And we would have to apply these beliefs in an all-or-nothing way. But in Ethics...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. Environmental issues challenge contemporary ethical theorists to account for topics that traditional ethical theories do not address to any significant extent. This book articulates and...